OKLAHOMA CITY—A state panel on Wednesday denied clemency for an Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago, paving the way for his lethal injection next month. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole voted 4–1 to deny recommending clemency for Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, who […]
KUNA, Idaho—Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection. Mr. Creech, 73, has been in prison half a century, convicted of five murders in three states and suspected […]
JACKSON, Miss.—A federal judge has ruled that he will not block Mississippi from carrying out with this week’s scheduled execution of an inmate who is suing the state over its use of three drugs for lethal injections. Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., 58, faces a Dec. 14 execution date, which was recently set by the Mississippi […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Alabama’s string of troubled lethal injections, which worsened late Thursday as prison workers aborted another execution because of a problem with intravenous lines, is unprecedented nationally, a group that tracks capital punishment said Friday. The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state’s second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate […]
A U.S. federal judge on Monday blocked the execution of a death row inmate in Alabama who has said the state lost his paperwork requesting an alternative to lethal injection. Alan Miller said he requested execution by inhaling nitrogen hypoxia, an untested method which Alabama allows but has never used. His execution was scheduled for […]
Faced with a monkeypox vaccine supply and demand problem, the White House’s newly minted National Monkeypox Response team on Tuesday implemented a plan to stretch the current vaccine supply by up to five-fold. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine to be administered by intradermal injection, […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Gov. Bill Lee paused executions in Tennessee for the rest of the year on Monday to enable a review of its lethal injection procedures after a testing oversight forced the state to call off the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to die. A federal public defender praised the Republican governor […]
A man in Texas has been sentenced to death by lethal injection after he was found guilty of killing a correctional officer inside a prison in Abilene, Jones County. Jurors decided on Nov. 6 that prison inmate Dillion Gage Compton, 24, should be put to death for killing Officer Marianne Johnson in 2016. The verdict […]
Canadian drug addicts will soon be able to receive safe, medical grade heroin from their doctors after the government approved new regulations allowing the prescription of the substance. Diacetylmorphine, as pharmaceutical heroin is referred to, will be made available only to those who have unsuccessfully attempted addiction treatments like rehab or opioid substitution therapy, with […]
